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Gold Buyers

There is another gold buyer in Merritt this week they are coming regularly looking for silver and gold as well as old jewelry.

Canadian Collectors Road Show.

Treasure hunters and second handlers are a reality of many people’s life in a tough economy.

They are at the Best Western of Voght for four this weekend the buying ends today. They advertised free estimates and coffee.

Kevin and Nate a couple of young fellows were well involved this morning giving verbal appraisals on scrap gold and  artifacts. A small disagreement on the plate or silver content of one item in Kevin’s charge drew attention from Nate and seemed resolved amicably. We watched three clients sell small amounts of scrap gold for amounts under 50 dollars ,they were payed by cheque after producing a name  address and photo ID to back it up.

One of the buyers was a  Thailand  national with a long last name: Tungkulbavarodom. ( just want to test my spell checker.)

An assessment on a hard-hat made by McDonald company that had an artistic relieve of the industries wares on it confirmed a 300 to 400 dollar value, when asked if the owner wanted to sell it he said no but he would check with his son the owner for a possible nother day. When a man produced two tobacco tins of high-grade silver ore ” given as a souvenir from a mine site he worked at in the North West Territories , there  was much conversation generated, but no offer from the buyers to take the ore. A table displayed some silver antiques and antique toys with a 1939 Iron Cross, and some other war medals.

Coffee was offered as advertised as well as free appraisals without pressure to buy.

Canadian Collectors Roadshow is from Vancouver, Canada and have a web site:

Collectorsroadshow.ca

Today in history,February 20 1901

The Legislature in Hawaii convenes for the first time.

The week in pictures 2/18/12

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Merit of Merritt

Have a happy weekend

Congestion charge camera's

Congestion charge camera's (Photo credit: Kaustav Bhattacharya)

Today in History: February 17 2003

The London Congestion scheme begins.

Bus service

We in Merritt British Columbia Canada have a transit service

A beautiful alabaster unguent jar
A beautiful alabaster unguent jar (Photo credit: mharrsch)

 two small buses run one at a time ,at about 4000 kilometers a month they are at 160,000 kilometers and a source says they  will be replaced with new ones at 200 thousand Ks that will be around Christmas time 2013.

The buses are operated by BC Transit and that is the provincial transit system.Only one full time job and some part timers including one that is retired from big town bus driving. The buses hold under 30 people but are equipped for wheel chairs and bicycles . They will also go to Kamloops and Kelowna on medical preference once a week for 5 dollars there and  return. You must book 24 hours ahead to make sure of service.
Opinion: We hope the new buses are as serviceable and maybe slightly bigger.
The service has an office in the back of the Chamber of Commerce building on Voght Street; just before the junction of Highway 8 and Highway 5-A on Nicola Avenue.
The service is subsidised.

Today in History, February 16,1923

The Chamber of Tutankhamun is entered by Howard Carter.

Self checker

The local Thompson Nicola District Library, self checker has been being used for a matter of weeks and is expanded into the general collection from the function of signing out holds. When asked a confirmed source said that there are no plans for signing items in on the machine.

We used the equipment and it works well and it frees library staff to spend more time with people that need more help.

Self checkers are used in some grocery stores but not any in the community of Merritt.

Opinion:

Electronics are every where.  We wonder when the market will have respite from them in some sort of sanctuary. Or free zone. A connected world is certainly a different  world.

 

Today in History;February 16,2006

The last MASH , Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is taken from duty in the US.

Rick Howie

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On Thursday evening there is a presentation by the Nicola Naturalist Society.

Rick Howie is a Photographer and Naturalist and Biologist, he will be giving a talk on restoring nature in the Thompson area.

Opinion: Reclaimation is involved and its being presented in the context of some major mining expansions in the area.

7:00 PM at the NVIT Lecture Theater

Today in history; February,15 1906

The British Labour Party is formed.

The Week in Pictures,2/11/12

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There was a fire at the local Ramada Inn this week and a person at the scene said that it was electrical and that a contractor was at work at the time of the fire.

The Dominos Pizza is out of commission as well, no idea on a dollar value, and the papers say it is still under investigation.

Today in history,February 10,1863

The fire extinguisher is patented.

Good will

Alley at night

Alley at night (Photo credit: markhillary)

There is a painting at the Baillie House by the British Columbia Artist of the year in two thousand and eight Norman Kelly is a print 185 of 2000. The work is called River Crossing and features three horses and cowboys crossing a river.

That type of art is popular around here and artists like Arthur Mosely and others have a good constituency when it comes c0wboy to art.

The Kelly print is marked down to 50 dollars from a hundred and its being sold as yard sale donations that come regularly  to Baillie House; a registered charity.

Art is in the eye of the beholder and sometimes the estate holder.

There is a cowboy poet at the Public Library here on March 1st.

Today in history,February 9,1964

The Beattles go on the Ed Sullivan show to be seen by a record 73 million people.

Resume

On February 14th there is a résumé writing workshop at NVIT. The next day on the 15th an interview workshop and its all in preparation for the March 7th job fair at NVIT. There is a free lunch if you register by the 10th of February.It is being hosted by Merritt Employment Services that’s the El people and they have had succesful fairs for Canadian tire hires and Wal-Mart when they opened here as well as for Highland Valley Coppers expansion.

NVIT is the local community college,the first sessions are in room uooo1,4155 Belshaw Ave and the job fair will take most of the ground floor we believe as they have in the past.

Today in history,February 8th,1855

The Devils footprints appear in Devon.

The Whistle Blower

Suffrage Parade (LOC)

Suffrage Parade (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

On the twentieth of this month the Nicola Valley Film Society will show the film The Whistle Blower.  About   the UNs involvement in eastern europe during the upheavals of the collapse of the control of the Soviet Union. It deals with crimes and crimes against women in respect to organized white slavery in a dramatic fashion.

Saying that it was inspired by actual events then asks the question how far would you go to save a life?

The film starts at 7:30 and no food or drinks in the lecture hall of the local community college. admission 5 dollars on with a seasonal 2 dollar membership. Th NVFS is a not for profit organization.

Today in history: February 7, 1907

The mud march takes place in support of women’s suffrage.

The week in pictures 2/4/12

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